You can't win "It Was Me"! I will be the longest Greenanon reviewer by the end of this day. I'll even make Longman Mauler himself tremble at my impressive length/ So much so, that he'll go back to Rakata prime to feast upon his green milk in shame that he's been outlonged!

Oh right, this is supposed to be a review, not a declaration of war. I have to say, I'm probably a good test for the objective enjoyment of this story, as every single zombie movie reference went over my head. It's never been a genre that has summoned my behind to a theater seat. 

Barbra possesses that same enthusiastic nerdy spunk that Kacey has in We Help Each Other Get By. The NEET nerd girl is a very fun character trope, and one that you've mastered. Her goal to become a cringe, katana-wielding zombie slayer was certainly one that kept me invested.

Sorry to say, however, that I didn't find John as interesting as Jake. While his devotion to Barb is admirable, and he possesses technical know-how to resolve the final conflict, I did find him to be a bit bland. I never really could impart defining characteristics he possessed on his own, while I can with Jake. Exacerbating this is that Peter, the initial captive of our villain, then later, Cassie's man, is almost identical in characterization. The fact that both end up as Celia's personal slaves at one point, does not help. To say the least, I had trouble differentiating them.

Speaking of Celia, she's the driver of most of the interest in this story, in that you are interested in seeing how she'll get her just desserts. Underlying a pragmatic need for hierarchy and order, is a neurotic need for dominance and control. I believe Barb's presence brought out her worst (despite her sacrificing the coach before, so it was always there), but a predator like her required a chew toy. This, of course, pushed Barb's development nicely, and allowed her victory over Celia to be all the sweeter.

The second hook for intrigue was the nebulous Rhames, and his need to be on the winning side. Showing no fear, and knowing when to fold, unlike Ceila, he's a nice, morally ambiguous contrast to the sadistic Celia, the soft Cassie, and the heroically ambitious Barb. 

Have to admit, I rather liked the smut scenes with Cassie for the ... let's just call it color commentary. Aright, I'll see myself out.

Unfortunately, I neither possess the length, nor the stamina to match "It Was Me", so I'll end the review here. Another entertaining classic of yours. I do think it would have benefitted with a more distinct characterization for John and Peter. The villains are what drive this story and maintain interest, and I think ending on their defeat wraps this up perfectly. Of course, in that hotel, who knows how long they'll last?

Balm in Gilead, huh? That's a good follow-up to your rising out of hell metaphor at the end of the last chapter. It sounds like the group found exactly what they needed.

I have to admit, I'm a bit sad to see this one end. Then again, I'd rather it end now than outstay its welcome by 7 or 8 seasons, maybe relocate to Virginia for a change of pace.

I love that Rhames had his weapon with him, even when he was lounging around in the tiny side of the resort. That's a very him thing to do. Also, it's great to see that he's lightening up a bit and starting to embrace the group mentality. His arc wasn't the focus of the story, obviously, but that's a nice little satisfying end to it nonetheless.

The contrast between Cassie's leadership style and Celia's is demonstrated pretty well in just a few paragraphs here and there. I didn't think that Cassie would keep the whole cheer captain title going, but it's a good sign that she didn't give herself a title at all, "undisciplined" though it may be to do so. It sends out a very "we're all in this together, but one of us has to be the final decisionmaker" vibe to counter Celia's "Do what I say or I'll murder you in a parking garage" style of management. This will probably do well to tear down the wall separating the cheerleaders and mall workers and even the one separating the tinies from the giants in general, too.

Also, Cassie took the time to actually assess the skills and former professions of all the "new recruits," which is an improvement in leadership as well. Seriously, a surgeon working at Cinnabon?! It looks like Celia choked on her lack of leadership skills.

Backing up a bit, I do like the fact that a month wasn't enough time for the cheerleaders, survivors, and tinies to start singing kumbaya together. While it's likely that the worst offenders died with Celia, some of the surviving cheerleaders probably weren't too kind to the mall workers and tinies before everything went to hell. And even if they weren't mean to the other two groups, the actions of Celia and the other cheerleaders are still going to be projected onto them, including Cassie, who we know really doesn't deserve it. But that's the way things go.

But yeah, I like where things are left at the end of the story, still a bit tense between the sub-groups but slowly coming together with hope that one day they can stop thinking of themselves in those terms.

I can't blame Barb for being all over John the second time in this chapter, what with his unintentional Leon cosplay and all. Also, regarding the quicktime event thing, has John even played a Resident Evil game? At times, I got the vibe that he hadn't, but there was the debate about Leon going in alone to save the president's daughter in Resident Evil 4 earlier in the story, so I wasn't sure if John was ever much of a gamer.

It was also a nice touch at the end, having Barb and Cassie bond over anime. It was made clear early in the story that both liked anime, and they had that Rurouni Kenshin moment in the parking garage, but it was good to see them geek out a bit over a common interest that was set up early on.

As far as the story as a whole goes, I, for one, am glad you fought that doubt at writing this, as it turned out really well! I would also encourage you to jump on any other "weird" ideas that you come up with in the future. I've got nothing against the countless stories here that rehash the same themes and scenarios over and over again (in fact, some of those stories are my among my favorites. It really is all in the execution of an idea), but seeing a story with a unique premise and new ideas was a welcome change of pace!

And the optimistic tone of this story is much appreciated. I can certainly appreciate things with a darker tone and even an unhappy ending (the ending to the original Night of the Living Dead is heartbreaking but perfect), but I generally want good things for the heroes of any story I find myself deeply invested in. This story did a good job of delivering

I guess you using the Day of the Dead soundtrack as inspiration when writing this would explain why I visualized so many scenes from this story in that old 70s/early 80s zombie movie style. I mentioned that one scene with Celia sniping a zombie early on, but most of the action scenes in this story gave me that same vibe.

Overall, this story was pretty great! Yeah, you may never have thought your zombie story was going to be a giantess one as well when you were younger, but you blended the two "genres" (not sure giantess is a genre, but fuck it) together perfectly. And you wrapped the whole thing around a NEET to boot. Excellent work!